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A Case-Control Study to Assess the Relationship Between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Kenya, Philippines and Bangladesh
Kuper, Hannah; Polack, Sarah; Eusebio, Cristina; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in … Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was conducted in three countries during 2005 … self-rated wealth were also measured. In total, 596 cases and 535 controls were included in these analyses (Kenya 142 cases …
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Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and not so Tall Women of India
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - eSocialSciences - 2011
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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National Human Development Report 2001
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - eSocialSciences - 2012
development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
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Addressing Key Issues in the Light of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in Health and Family Welfare Sector in India
Kanwal, Vineeta; Mondal, Samir K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
development and reduce poverty. So, there is an urgent need to address several issues to revamp the entire health sector in India …
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The Indian Economy since Independence
Vyasulu, Vinod - eSocialSciences - 2007
it has not reduced poverty sufficiently. The benefits of growth have not been evenly distributed, but relatively …
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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is Subsidizing Hydro Developers and Harming the Kyoto Protocol
Haya, Barbara - eSocialSciences - 2012
Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away...
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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